India isn't sending any footballers to the World Cup - the team haven't qualified since 1950 - but that doesn't mean they won't be represented. Six parliamentarians are being criticised on social media for their planned trip to Brazil using state funds.

Indian Twitter users used the hashtag #BJPFifaMasti more than 10,000 times since Thursday. The hashtag expresses irritation with the BJP political party for letting MPs and ministers travel to Brazil for what people are referring to as "masti" or "fun". The six individuals are Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) from Goa state, which is governed by the same party that recently won the national elections too, the BJP.

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So, where is the skill? India did not qualify for the World Cup. Yet, these MLAs qualified for a trip to Brazil.

Of course, British Brainwashing Corporation (BBC) is continuing its anti-Modi tirade, as is their job (sitting in their cosy London office, pontificating, and character assassination of anyone they don't like), but should that absolve Modi from his responsibility to curb this type of largesse?

Strange story though, they decided to include the Goa fisheries ministry, and a few others while the sports minister, and an ex football captain, were not allowed to travel (they said it was a study tour as Goa s hosting the u-17 worldcup), but it seemed like appeasement to me . Anyway good that they decided to listen and cancel the whole thing.

Strange story though, they decided to include the Goa fisheries ministry, and a few others while the sports minister, and an ex football captain, were not allowed to travel (they said it was a study tour as Goa s hosting the u-17 worldcup), but it seemed like appeasement to me . Anyway good that they decided to listen and cancel the whole thing.

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News article is not confused. It clearly says "Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) from Goa state."

Please read the opening post again.

Edit: I was wrong. You are correct, the news article uses both MP and MLA. It is indeed a bit confused.

Strange story though, they decided to include the Goa fisheries ministry, and a few others while the sports minister, and an ex football captain, were not allowed to travel (they said it was a study tour as Goa s hosting the u-17 worldcup), but it seemed like appeasement to me . Anyway good that they decided to listen and cancel the whole thing.

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It's good that, tour itself has been cancelled.

However, it was utterly a foolish decision by Mr. Manohar Parikar in the place who thought of sending MLAs on a joyride using public money

I believe, Goan govt has received stinkers BJP top brass hence, they had to cancel the Study Tour.

Actually, the trip was cancelled after Modi stepped in and vetoed it. He has set strict guidelines for foreign visits for Union Ministers and have requested all BJP state governments to follow the same.

If Modi goes: Modi is not doing work, only going on tours; Modi having fun at tax-payer's expense; How can he go when he didn't allow others to go?; For Modi WC Final is more important than Law & Order/inflation/blah/blah; etc. etc.

Some of Modi Govt. steps taken for scam free India.. All these in less than a month.

* Environmental clearance requests to be on e-platform only [No more Jayanti tax kind, as accused by opposition parties in last govt.]
* Defence procurements above 10 Lakh Rs. to be on e-platform only
* All required steps taken to resolve issues in Defence forces readiness (where in corruption impacts important defence procurement )
* Ministry and Bureaucrats are brought in line to work hard and not letting to run their own interest or vendetta.
* Removed many useless and non sense procedures in Govt. for quick resolution of issues and to bring accountability (abolished GOMs and EGOMs)
* More power to Bureaucrats to take decisions as per process and not to budge for political causes

Actually, the trip was cancelled after Modi stepped in and vetoed it. He has set strict guidelines for foreign visits for Union Ministers and have requested all BJP state governments to follow the same.

However now that Brazil President has invited all BRICS HoS to watch FIFA WC Final, including Modi, Indian & foreign media is salivating at this Catch 22 situation:

If Modi goes: Modi is not doing work, only going on tours; Modi having fun at tax-payer's expense; How can he go when he didn't allow others to go?; For Modi WC Final is more important than Law & Order/inflation/blah/blah; etc. etc.

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Dilma Rousseff is wise enough, and the things you said, which I agree with, if explained to her, I am certain she will understand.

Narendra Modi would have never thought that he may get to sit at the high table of world diplomacy so soon after becoming the Indian Prime Minister. But this seems to be happening.

He may well get a chance to meet United States President Barack Obama next month itself, well ahead of Modiâ€™s bilateral visit to the US in September.

The opportunity is watching the football World Cup final in the Brazilian mega city Rio de Janeiro on 13 July for which he has been invited by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ahead of the 6th BRICS summit to be held on 15-17 July in another Brazilian city of Fortaleza, which is about 2200 kms away.

While all other BRICS leaders, Presidents of China (Xi Jinping), Russia (Vladimir Putin) and South Africa (Jacob Zuma), have already given their consent to attend the worldâ€™s grandest sporting event, no formal decision has been conveyed to the hostess by Modi and no communication has been made by the Modi government to Brazil even as an advance team is leaving for Japan and Brazil later on Tuesday evening, the two countries which Modi will be visiting separately next month.

Modi was also confronted with another possible red rag â€” the opposition crying foul over his â€˜frequent foreign visitsâ€™. He has just come from his first foreign visit to Bhutan (15-16 June) and will have visited Japan (3-4 July) before embarking on his Brazil trip.

But a key source told Firstpost on Tuesday evening that Modi is likely to accept Dilmaâ€™s invitation as he will get to meet the crÃ¨me de la crÃ¨me of the world leadership. He has been told by his officials that President Obama is all set to travel to Brazil for watching the final.

Besides, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is also likely to visit Brazil for watching the match. Germany is Europeâ€™s number one economy which interests Modi deeply.

Modi has been told by his advisors that rarely does a new incumbent in the Indian PMO get an opportunity like he is getting to meet the whoâ€™s who of the world leadership informally.

If Modi has held back the announcement of his approval of the Brazilian Presidentâ€™s invitation, it is largely because of the pressing domestic issues. His government is scheduled to present his maiden budget in Parliament next month. The budget has to be passed by both houses of Parliament by 30 July.

Earlier the government was thinking of convening the budget session of Parliament in the middle of July. This would have clashed straight with the BRICS summit. But Modi could have explained his absence from India citing many precedence and also the fact that the calendar of multilateral events and summits cannot be changed at the behest of India.

But this changed after Dilma Rousseff invited Modi for watching the World Cup final. She was one of the first world leaders to have telephoned him and congratulated him over his election victory.

Now Modi and his advisors are toying with the idea of convening the budget session earlier than originally planned.

The latest Parliament schedule being worked out is to begin the budget session on 7 July, present Rail Budget on 8 July, Economic Survey on 9 July and the general budget on 10 July.

This would allow Modi to leave for Brazil on 11 July to be in Fortaleza in time for attending the final.

So, where is the skill? India did not qualify for the World Cup. Yet, these MLAs qualified for a trip to Brazil.

Of course, British Brainwashing Corporation (BBC) is continuing its anti-Modi tirade, as is their job (sitting in their cosy London office, pontificating, and character assassination of anyone they don't like), but should that absolve Modi from his responsibility to curb this type of largesse?

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It's the job of British since they never like India ruled by nationalists.

Since BBC can't report how British women are getting screwed and groomed by past slaves aka Pakistan/Bangladesh etc and how their British soldiers gets beheaded by Negros they got something to bash upon.